Despite the obvious benefits of dropshipping compared to other eCommerce business models, as a dropshipper you could encounter issues that you may not be fully prepared for.

One of the things that can get in your way is the issue of time. If you have processed a large number of separate Oberlo orders in one day, you probably spent many hours ordering products because you had to make numerous small transactions when processing each order individually. That time could have been better spent on marketing or developing new ideas for your business.

Plus, sometimes many separate, small transactions can trigger questions from your payment provider.

Here is a quick tip on how you can process a bunch of orders in only a few steps, which will allow you to save time and lower risks.

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After you have placed an order and have been redirected to the payment page, instead of paying for each product separately, scroll down and click “Cancel payment and return to AliExpress”. This way you won’t have to continue with the payment right away, but your order will still be saved. You can later review it in the ‘Awaiting Payments’ section.

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Repeat this with as many orders as you need and then go to the ‘My Orders’ page, where you will see all of the orders waiting to be paid. Now you can finish processing a large number of orders all at once instead of making small orders every time.

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It’s already automated – we could close the order for you automatically, but some people do want to place orders one by one.

pz

How about a checkbox with “automatic/manual” ?
Would be a great time safer. I mean that lets say you have 20 pending orders, you click on “automatic fulfillment” and oberlo opens one tab after another (if this is possible? otherwise all tabs at once and you have to limit it so ur browser won’t crash?`)
and once all the orders are “in” (let’s say you eat / shower for a few minutes) return and checkout/pay ?

Because otherwise if you have a few hundred sales you will have hours of clicking and clicking. I think this would be a big incentive for a lot more people to buy oberlo.

We’re building a platform separate from AliExpress to introduce fully automated dropshipping. As for now, I’m afraid we can’t automate this even more. Oberlo users who make 100+ sales a day usually hire a virtual assistant at Upwork.com or other platform to help them with customer support, orders fulfillment and general store maintenance. Anyway, I mark this down as a feature suggestion and I really appreciate you letting us know what features you’d like to see at Oberlo. Most of the features we do come from the suggestions like yours.

pz

I wouldnt feel comfortable with virtual assistants being logged into my Aliexpress account and having my payment details?

Note, that your customers’ addresses will be added automatically. If that doesn’t answer your question, get back to me with more details so we can discuss it 😉

Cheers!

David Santana

I am new to drop shipping etc. If I rather place multiple orders at once versus one at a time, does Oberlo automatically upload a customer address per order? and when I place the orders all at once would it be with the specific customers info/address and item of purchase?
The reason I ask if because I am hesitant on raising a red flag with Paypal and would probably prefer placing a few orders at one time versus placing each order one at a time. Am I making sense?